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Regional Voices for Better Health Dr Paul Plant Deputy Director Health Improvement Public Health England (London Region)

2. Overview Public Health England (PHE) – Who we are?
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Overview
Public Health England (PHE) – Who we are?
Priorities for Health and Wellbeing Boards
London Health Board
Improving Mental Health for London
Questions

3. Public Health England (PHE)
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Public Health England (PHE)
Went live on 1 April 2013.
To champion the public’s health and work with partners so that collectively the population are:
Protected against hazards to their health;
Supported in enjoying good health at each stage of their life; and
Able to access to the health services that best meet their needs.
 Organised into three patches
Have embedded staff in NHS England
Regional Director, Health Advisor to Mayor
PHOF:
Outcome 1: Increased healthy life expectancy Taking account of the health quality as well as the length of life (Note: This measure uses a self-reported health assessment, applied to life expectancy.)
Outcome 2: Reduced differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy between communities Through greater improvements in more disadvantaged communities
DOMAIN 1:
Improving the wider determinants of health
Objective: Improvements against wider factors that affect health and wellbeing, and health inequalities
Domain 2:
Health improvement
Objective: People are helped to live healthy lifestyles, make healthy choices and reduce health inequalities
DOMAIN 3:
Health protection
Objective: The population’s health is protected from major incidents and other threats, while reducing health inequalities
DOMAIN 4:
Healthcare public health and preventing premature mortality
Objective: Reduced numbers of people living with preventable ill health and people dying prematurely, while reducing the gap between communities

4. PHE London Organisation
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Regional Director
Yvonne Doyle
Health Improvement & NW London
Paul Plant
Health Protection & NE & NC London
Deborah Turbitt
Specialist Services & South London
Marilena Korkodilos
System Delivery
Pui-Ling Li
Drugs & Alcohol
Alison Keating
Communications
Tycie West
GLA Health Lead
Helen Walters
Principal Screening Advisor (NHS England)
Adrian Brown
Business Manager
David Wederall
Private Office
Peter Counsell
PHE London Organisation .

5. Roles and responsibilities in VCS Engagement
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Roles and responsibilities in VCS Engagement
Local government to lead local engagement with VCS
PHE London will support:
Local Government
LAs when they want to work supra Borough
Develop insight with colleagues about how VCS helps to address social determinants of poor health
PHE National will lead discussions with national VCS organisations as part of wider partnership and as public mediators
The Regional Director of PHE London, Prof Yvonne Doyle, will act as professional health adviser to the Mayor of London and GLA to make sure they have the access to the best public health advice.
Support a post within the GLA to help it take forward its own work on health improvement and tackling health inequalities.
Work with partners on the emerging London Health Board, to identify joint priorities and help develop and deliver a joint work plan for 2013/14.
Support the national and London-wide political scrutiny of the work of PHE and how well the public health function is working.
Contribute to wider PHE work that champions the health of the population of England, addresses specific public health issues evident in the capital and showcases all that is good about London.

6. Key Issues at the moment
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Key Issues at the moment
Supporting new Public Health System develop
Supporting DsPH develop their new roles
Key Topic Areas
Sexual Health
Tobacco Control
Mental Health
Workplace Health
Early Years
Health Inequalities both integrated and separately
The Regional Director of PHE London, Prof Yvonne Doyle, will act as professional health adviser to the Mayor of London and GLA to make sure they have the access to the best public health advice.
Support a post within the GLA to help it take forward its own work on health improvement and tackling health inequalities.
Work with partners on the emerging London Health Board, to identify joint priorities and help develop and deliver a joint work plan for 2013/14.
Support the national and London-wide political scrutiny of the work of PHE and how well the public health function is working.
Contribute to wider PHE work that champions the health of the population of England, addresses specific public health issues evident in the capital and showcases all that is good about London.

7. Priorities for Health and Wellbeing Boards
Early work looking at local Health and Well-being Boards’ priorities shows many selecting same themes:
Improving mental wellbeing of adults and children
Reducing obesity rates among children and adults
Work focussed on long-term conditions
Integration of health and care services
Early intervention
Other areas include tackling alcohol related issues, tobacco control, improving dementia care, cancer prevention and better service outcomes, reducing cardiovascular disease and increasing physical activity levels.

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London Health Board
The Board’s role is to provide leadership on health issues of pan-London significance, where this adds value to decisions, agreements and action at local level.
The board will meet four times per year starting in May 2013
Membership is made up of three parts:
five Leaders of London local authorities
the Mayor and four Mayoral appointees
five senior representatives from the Health Sector in the capital

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London Health Board
The Board has identified a number of priority areas to focus on:
Making the case for investing in London’s health economy
Promoting growth and jobs in London’s health & life sciences sectors
Improving primary care
Enhancing the patient experience, particularly through transparency of data and digital access to information
Improving mental health services and well-being

10. Improve Mental Health & Wellbeing in London
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Improve Mental Health & Wellbeing in London
Identify areas where joint work amongst stakeholders would improve the mental health and wellbeing of Londoners.
Develop a number of potential initiatives that could be taken forward under the umbrella of the London Health Board (LHB).

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